Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Family, nature and health all go together.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. By consulting Nature as the source and measure of that membership, The Land Institute seeks to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned while promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring.

Anything to do with the land, I love.

This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.

Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.

I'm very aware of modern countryside issues, such as rewilding: how, as science progresses, we begin to understand that a healthy ecosystem is multiform.

Nature is actually the greatest democracy in the world.

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

Yoga has spread harmony between man and nature. It is a holistic approach to health and wellbeing.

Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net. For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us.

Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.

Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

There is no solitude in nature.

Man begets, but land does not beget.

That dark laboratory we call the soil.

All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.

My mom and my dad taught me the greatest gifts we have are our family, our health and the right to clean water and good land.

In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.